Synonym: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness. Similar words: security, curiosity, curio, curious, minority, priority, posterity, integrity. Meaning: [əb'skjʊrətɪ /-kjʊə-] n. 1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand 2. an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known 3. the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination.
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(31) After being voted out of office, Rios Montt seemed consigned to political obscurity.
(32) There is enough light for those who desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition. Blaise Pascal
(33) Like anyone who has lived most of his life in relative obscurity, Payne remains uncomfortable with public scrutiny.
(34) Would the idea of drugs useful against germs once again have faded into obscurity?
(35) Certain species are still prospering, but as a class the reptiles are slowly trailing the amphibians into obscurity.
(36) Then with the coming of the railways they slipped back into obscurity.
(37) Even more surprising there are no stars: a deficiency which today usually condemns a climb to total obscurity.
(38) There one came to terms with obscurity, with low tones, one did not demand full clarity of mind or motive.
(39) It was ironic, though, that without the official opposition the bull-running would probably have faded quietly away into obscurity.
(40) That other story, likewise[sentencedict.com], traced the path from poverty to wealth and obscurity to fame.
(41) The prehistory of that good, however, remains clouded to us in obscurity.
(42) He pays her to remain in obscurity, fearing she may reveal the respectability of his origins.
(43) You can plunge back into obscurity or put your hide on the line.
(44) Rarely has a term of public discourse gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.
(45) Their bayonets flashed through the obscurity, lighted up by the bivouac fires.
(46) These groups relish their own obscurity, because it allows them to do things in a covert manner, like cockroaches.
(47) This page tracks the ups and downs of those stars whose careers have led them from obscurity to fame and back again.
(48) Clark is too good a player to slide into obscurity, but a brittle temperament hasn't helped the recovery process.
(49) Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds. Alexandre Dumas
(50) Cataloged below are some traits I believe a networked-based economy would exhibit: Distributed CoresThe boundaries of a company blur to obscurity.
(51) Released shortly afterwards by the appositely elusive Water Brothers records[Sentence dictionary], it should have passed into obscurity almost instantly.
(52) Hunold was not executed, as we might expect, but returned to the obscurity of his monastic life.
(53) A hundred years on, his portrait has been removed from the National Portrait Gallery and his name had slipped into obscurity.
(54) In jazz, sidemen often toil in the shadows, except in circles where obscurity is a selling point.
(55) The Government Commission was established here in triumph, and sank here into obscurity.
(56) It would be lost in obscurity, perhaps still being used as unofficial storage space by its neighboring furniture gallery.
(57) It is interesting to speculate on the possible reasons for his total obscurity during the intervening years of the Restoration.
(58) He ridicules but secretly envies Saburov, who accepts professional obscurity and poverty rather than compromising his talent by betraying his artistic ideals.
(59) As times and contexts change the visionaries of yesterday fade into obscurity or, worse, become the villains of today.
(60) And, after a spell of obscurity, Sidney Bechet was making waves again.
More similar words: security, curiosity, curio, curious, minority, priority, posterity, integrity, celebrity, authority, similarity, regularity, popularity, subscriber, rescue, discuss, biscuit, scuttle, observe, sculpture, lurid, observer, observed, obstacle, discussion, emasculate, tourism, burial, during, tourist.